BEDT #8 - Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal - Baldwin 18145 - built: September 1890
LOWELL M. PALMER - "Carleton"
BROOKLYN EASTERN
DISTRICT TERMINAL - # 8
According to the June 1952 issue of Railroad Magazine
and
the May 1990 issue of Semaphore, there were no records of a ERT / BEDT #
8 ever existing.
The photograph below, generously furnished by Dave
Keller and
Baldwin build data furnished by Tim Moore prove otherwise.
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Builder
& Location:
Baldwin Locomotive Works (Philadelphia, PA)
Construction Number:
18145
Build Date:
September 1900
Baldwin Locomotive class 6-32-D 145 - "Six Coupled Tank Locomotive"
Wheel Arrangement:
0-6-0T
Water Tank Capacity:
1450 gal
Firebox Area
129 sq. ft.
Cylinders:
19"d x 24"s
Boiler Capacity:
1200 gal
Firebox
Dim.
93 3/16" x 33 3/8"
Boiler Pressure:
180 psi
Boiler Dia.
58"
Firebox Depth
58" f, 57" r
Weight:
130,000 lbs
Coal Capacity:
1300 lbs
Tubes Dia.
1 3/4"
Length:
29' 0"
Fuel Oil Capacity (after
conv)
500 gal
Tube Length
9' 4 1/2"
Height:
Tractive Effort:
28,800 lbs
# of Tubes
220
Wheel Diameter:
46"
Factor
of Adhesion:
Tube Area
936 sq. ft.
Wheelbase:
8' 0"
Sharpest curve,
advised:
Grate Area
21.6 sq ft
Valve Type:
Balanced Slide
Sharpest curve,
practicable:
Staying
Crown Bar
Lightest rail
usage, advised:
Owner History:
Lowell M. Palmer Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal
Present Location:
retired between 1934 - 1936; scrapped ?
Notes:
built as round saddletank, closed cab (see steam loco notes)
converted to square sided saddletank by BEDT
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Baldwin Locomotive Works - Specification Sheets for #7 and #8
courtesy of Southern Methodist University, Everett DeGolyer Digitial Archives, Dallas, TX
authors collection
added 10 April 2019
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May 15, 1919 - North 9th Street
zoom & crop of #43 W. R. Harrison photo
authors collection
added 20 January 2016
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September 8, 1933
(Note the location of the tugboats.
I believe the locomotive is sitting where the North 8th Street enginehouse
would be constructed.) Note the "chord" style counterbalances on the drivers, as compared to the "crescent" type in the image above.
George Votava photo
D. Keller collection